Improvement in clasps



P. ARMSTRONG Clasps.

No. 205,334; Patented June 25, I878.

N-PETERS, PHOTO-LIFHDGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK ARMSTRONG, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLASPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,334, dated June 25,1878; application filed April 10, 1878.

T ll whom it may concern: when the two plates are in position a space,0, Be it known that I, FRANK ARMSTRONG, of is left between them, throughwhich the web Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and C is free topass when the biting-ends of the State of Connecticut, have inventedcertain plates are not in contact therewith. D is a new and usefulImprovements in Clasps and slide which causes the biting-ends of the Ido hereby declare that the following is a full plates A B to approacheach other in an obviand exact description thereof, reference being ousmanner, the said plates springing apart had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a when the slide is moved back. part of thisapplication. The back plate A is perfectly flat, with a My inventionrelates to certain improvechannel or groove, d, formed therein, and intoments in metallic clasps designed more parwhich the web or fabric isforced when the ticularly for use in stocking-supporters. It curved endeof the plate B is forced against has for its object to providefor theadjustment it by the slide. The advantage of forming the of the claspupon the web-support, and also end of the plate A flat, incontradistinction to facility of locating the biting-ends to grasp. theusual bent end, is that when used as a With these ends in view myinvention constocking-supporter this plate may be passed sists informing the upper end of the clasp down very readily between thestocking and so that the web may freely pass for longitudithe leg of thewearer without striking the top nal adjustment, as will be fullyexplained or edge of the stocking. The plate A may hereinafter; and myinvention further consists terminate at its upper end at the same pointin the peculiar form of one of the biting-ends, with the plate B, or itmay extend to form a whereby it may be located, as will be moresuspension-loop, as shown in dotted lines at fully set forth. Fig. 1,and both plates may be cut away, as

To enable others to make and use my imshown at f g, for the sake oflightness.

proved clasp, I will describe its construction What I claim as new, anddesire to secure and operation, referring by letters to the acby LettersPatent, is-- companying drawing, in which A metallic clasp consisting ofthe spring- Figure l is a perspective view of one of my jaws A B, joinedat their upper ends, provided improved clasps arranged upon a piece ofwith a channel, 0, between them, and adapted web. Fig. 2 is a centrallongitudinal section to be closed by means of a sliding ring, sub

taken at the line a; w of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is stantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

an end view of the clasp.

Similar letters indicate like parts in the FRANKARMSZLRONG' severalviews. Witnesses:

A B are two plates riveted together at a a. WM. C. MOINTYRE,

The plate B is formed with a channel, I), so that A J NO. D. PATTEN.

